„a politician is an arse uponwhich everyone has sat except a man“

— E.E. Cummings
„One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.“
— W.B. Yeats
„Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky