History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up , out of the dreadfulness of merely living.

I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.