Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.

Never offend an enemy in a small way.

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.