Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living.
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls