To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.