History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

The jester is brother to the sage.

The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it.

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras.