They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.
This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.
Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
I would never wound a cat's feelings, no matter how downright aggressive I might be to humans.
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.
If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.
During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one condition to another, whole races of animals-each group adapted to the physical conditions in which they lived-were successively created and exterminated.
You know, it's not the world I would have wanted, for sure.
Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors.