Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.
What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.
The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.
Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.
Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.
That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.