You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

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.

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.

I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.

The righteous one has no sense of humor.

People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.