Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.

You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved.

If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.