Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
The future is the worst thing about the present.
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
Anything for a quiet life.
Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
A weed is but an unloved flower.
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
Cubism is a Cathedral of shit.
Do as we say, and not as we do.
But music-good music-was by nature an intimate act.
Reason is the servant of instinct.
I was an altar boy and a choir member.
Siberia is a state of mind.
