One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.