Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh,And now it is forever.
I knew words were like chains, they held me back. . . the act of description taints the description.
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
The profoundest distances are never geographical.
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love. " They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?
My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.
In a world of war, pain and suffering, all I want for Christmas is an underwater watch and a silver clutch rod for my dirt bike.
A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.