Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.

Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.