There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

You're a Good Little Slave

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

Few things worth having can be got easily.

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me.

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

A fool is very dangerous when in power.

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.

I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.

I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.