What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods become exhausted; stimuli no longer work. New problems appear and demand new methods. Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.

One must live well to know what living is.

Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.