Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.