I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

All of it—for this. Leading us to a door we can't open, a password we don't have.

An inch long scar on my left wrist, reminded me of an enchanted world of love, which had vanished like a mirage.

Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Hope you're working hard, because I am!!!

Sometimes you need to sit in the wrong place to see the right view.

I don't want all that much. But I want to be fine. I want to live a simple life with many good moments and a lot of fun.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.

Torture is illegal. Torture is banned by various provisions of the law. I support that.

...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.