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

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 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.

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

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.

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