Elias Canetti

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.