The triumph of vegetation is total.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.