Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.

Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.

All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State and no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.