All great innovations are built on rejections.

Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.

I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again.

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.