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

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

invaders always destroy libraries.

Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to raise the ante, to provide stronger and stronger stimulants. Or try to provide them, since both the manner, the naming of parts and the few inexpressive four-letter words, and the matter, are narrowly limited.

I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

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