Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

God has created the world in play.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.