For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

If you hear that something might be about to happen, call a press conference and demand it!

“Burząc pomniki, oszczędzajcie cokoły. Zawsze mogą się przydać.”

Translated as “When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.”

“Can you explain away love too?” I asked.

“Oh, yes,” he said.  “The desire to possess in some, like avarice; in others the desire to surrender, to lose the sense of responsibility, the wish to be admired.  Sometimes just the wish to be able to talk, to unburden yourself to someone who won’t be bored.  The desire to find again a father or a mother.  And of course under it all the biological motive.”

I thought, it’s all true, but isn’t there something over?  I’ve dug up all that in myself, in Maurice too, but still the spade hasn’t touched rock.