Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.