It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.

Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.

The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.