Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Beauty can pierce one like pain.
Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
