The strength of a state is not just its ability to coerce, but its ability to provide services and maintain legitimacy in the eyes of its citizens.
A good book should be an axe to break the frozen sea within us.
"The dead are the only ones who truly know us."
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.