Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.

The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.