The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

A story has been thought to its conclusion when it has taken its worst possible turn.

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

Human life is beyond comprehension.