In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death
Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.
The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.
I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.
Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.