There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of natural graces, sleep.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.