Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog.

As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism.

We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living.

Constant repetition dulls receptivity.

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.