the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.

what you fear, you invite.

Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?

Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.

Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the whole flimsy structure periodically throughout history.

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.