That parasite: the past.

A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

That parasite: the past.