Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

The real genres: good and bad.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.