Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

International football is the continuation of war by other means.