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

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.