Death would be so much easier to dance with if it weren’t surrounded by the clutter of civilization. - Jaroslav Kalfař

The body must not be violated. This is the greatest truth of the universe.

The greatness of a nation is in its symbols, its gestures, in doing things that are unprecedented. It’s why the Americans are falling behind—they built a nation on the idea of doing new things, and now they’d rather sit and pray that the world won’t make them adapt too much.

The universe assigned the tasks of speaking and kissing to the lips because there is never a need to do both at the same time.