Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

Consistency is a virtue for trains.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with