Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages

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

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

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

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

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.