Fallen myths can instill venom.

Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?

Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.

A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives... that is the miracle of marriage.

This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics.

Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.

If you have an enemy, you first have to listen - whether he really is an enemy or just speaks in a different language

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

It's more likely I'll dye my hair green, get a bunch of tattoos and go on tour with Amy Winehouse.

I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything.

To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.