"Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his."

"People who don’t read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn’t it?"

"The question is then how can we decide what anybody in the ancient world said. We can't. We wish we could. It would be nice if we could. You would like to think that because you can go to the store an…"

"Those not able to work were marched to the farmhouses. These were a good kilometer from the side track. There they were made to undress. At first they had to undress in the open, where we had erected …"

"It's better to act and to regret / Than to regret not to have acted"