America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
I think books should have secrets, like people do.
You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?