Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.

The real truths are those that can be invented.