Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

You can't have the family farm without the family.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.