First the grub, then the morals.

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

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.

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.