Time is the substance of which we are made

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility.

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.