Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.
My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.