Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.