It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!