Dear doctor, you must not only let the patient tells his story, but you should also try to understand it.

You must try to make the most of all that comes but also don't forget to learn a lot of all that goes.

A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact, he anticipates it.

The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.

When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual research to artistic criticism.

A stupid disgusting bore is a guy who has nothing to say, and nonetheless says it anyway.

Once I was adviced never to trust a pretty face. Well, and what should I do when a meet a shithead?

We all live in a small unique world, that's why we need at least one sole common language.

Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".

The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.

If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization.

But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight which none but those who have experienced it can understand.

Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress.

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness.

I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.