Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.