A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.

Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

There are no answers, only choices.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.