Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.

Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.