Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

invaders always destroy libraries.

the sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.

War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.