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.
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.