I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.

Writers on the subject of August Strindberg have hitherto omitted to mention that he could not write. ... Strindberg, who was neither a good nor a wise man, had a stroke of luck. He went mad. He lost the power of inhibition. Everything down to the pettiest suspicion that the dog had been given the leanest mutton chop, poured out of his lips. Men of his weakness and sensuality are usually, from their sheer brutishness, unable to express themselves. But Strindberg was mad and articulate. That is what makes him immortal.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.