A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

Lady Ponsonby was right. The forbidden fruit isn't shaped like an apple. It's shaped like a banana.

Forgiveness is the most compassionate way toward the peace.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.

The world is restructuring, and all of the enemies that used to exist are kind of gone, so now they are looking out for new enemies.

Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it

If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.

I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.