The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

I had a cat once, but every time I tried to give him a bath, the fur stuck to my tongue.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.