We do not talk-we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

The history of the world is the history of a privileged few.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.