Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not done what he did in the 21st. He would have understood how difficult it was to control this territory. He probably didn't read them.

I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.

The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.