I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Pain was a fascinating horror

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.