I was cured all right.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.