“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”

“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the bod...”

“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.”

“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.”

“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.”

“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”

“Reality is far more vicious than Russian roulette. First, it delivers the fatal bullet rather infrequently, like a revolver that would have hundreds, even thousands of chambers instead of six. Afte...”

“You are all misleading one another, and are yourselves deceived. The sun does not go round the earth, but the earth goes round the sun, revolving as it goes, and turning towards the sun in the cour...”

“Ne dites pas trop de mal de vous-meme: on vous croirait. - Don't talk too badly of yourself: they ight believe you.”

“Menulis kembali kenangan masa lalu butuh sebuah keberanian.”

“There's too much coldness in the world," I told her. "If people would only talk things out together it would help.”

“ignorance and power, theyre a poor combination.”