To Destroy Is Still The Strongest Instinct

People Who Insist On Telling Their Dreams Are Among The Terrors Of The Breakfast Table.

No Roman Ever Was Able To Say, 'i Dined Last Night With The Borgias'.

Few, As I Have Said, Are The Humorists Who Can Induce This State. To Master And Dissolve Us, To Give Us The Joy Of Being Worn Down And Tired Out With Laughter, Is A Success To Be Won By No Man Save In Virtue Of A Rare Staying-power. Laughter Becomes Extreme Only If It Be Consecutive. There Must Be No Pauses For Recovery. Touch-and-go Humour, However Happy, Is Not Enough. The Jester Must Be Able To Grapple His Theme And Hang On To It, Twisting It This Way And That, And Making It Yield Magically All Manner Of Strange And Precious Things.

History Does Not Repeat Itself. The Historians Repeat One Another.

The Non-conformist Conscience Makes Cowards Of Us All.