The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten. - W. H. Auden

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.