The poor have no business with culture and should beware of it. They cannot eat it; they cannot sell it; they can only pass it on to others and that is why the world is full of hungry people ready to teach us anything under the sun.

Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.

The poor have no business with culture and should beware of it. They cannot eat it; they cannot sell it; they can only pass it on to others and that is why the world is full of hungry people ready to teach us anything under the sun.

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.