I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.