A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]

I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.