Civilization is a perishable commodity.
Nothing is interesting if you’re not interested.
Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.
The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.
Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is – and that is, meaningless.
Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.
Expect the worst, and you won’t be disappointed.
And it’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
Inquisitive people aren’t really very attractive, are they?
The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don’t always do what you want to do; you do what you must.
Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.