Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

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

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.

Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

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

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

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.