In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.

Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss