I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

Not bad, not bad at all, " Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola

…the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn’t matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

It’s quite possible that mortality is simply the result of poor education.

The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon!

If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?

Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.

I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'

I have very warm memories about New York, about the old times, mostly the '60s.

And the whole is greater than the part.

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.

I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.