War Is Only A Cowardly Escape From

A Harmful Truth Is Better Than A Useful Lie.

It Is Most Certainly A Good Thing That The World Knows Only The Beautiful Opus But Not Its Origins, Not The Conditions Of Its Creation; For If People Knew The Sources Of The Artist's Inspiration, That Knowledge Would Often Confuse Them, Alarm Them, And Thereby Destroy The Effects Of Excellence. Strange Hours! Strangely Enervating Labor! Bizarrely Fertile Intercourse Of The Mind With A Body!

What Good Would Politics Be, If It Didn’t Give Everyone The Opportunity To Make Moral Compromises.

War Is Only A Cowardly Escape From The Problems Of Peace.

One Has The Idea Of A Stupid Man As Perfectly Healthy And Ordinary, And Of Illness As Making One Refined And Clever And Unusual.