Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.