Old men ought to be explorers.
Talent imitates, but genius steals.
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.
I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.
Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.