After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
