The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.