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

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.

A writer's work is the product of laziness.

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.