Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

Ah well, 'tis the way of the world -- births and deaths, births and deaths.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.

Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.

When a woman weeps, it is a man's shame.

Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

The moon was so young, so strange, even as a young girl who is dreaming and is afraid to tell her dreams; and it was shining only for itself.

Shamans enter the dream world of sub-consciousness to wrestle with demons and rally angels. They return with tales of their encounters which become the myths and legends of their communities.

Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

Where you stand today does not matter; it is the direction in which your are moving, and the rate at which you travel, that count.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

People still cheat on their wives, that hasn't fallen out of fashion. We all speak of it badly, but it has not fallen out of fashion.

If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.

I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.