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

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.