If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.