All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

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.