Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it

Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living.

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.