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.

Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

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

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

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

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