Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir.

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again. That is how mathematics is created; it has its fatal flaw.

Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl.