I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

No social stability without individual stability.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

My fate is written by my God. It can never be wrong.

Agitation gives birth to creation.

Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.

The intuitive, the expressive, the un-measurable, the intensely personal have never found a satisfactory place in the curriculum, in assessment, in the publics esteem.

Truth is what the voice within tells you.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and more;let us be infected by goodness, and let us spread the good contagion.