No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.
The memory of man is as old as misfortune
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.