I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.

Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant. Speak to me.

But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it God. So do they with their won evil, calling it the Devil.

I dig and plough at your command, ' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.

I mean that repeated offences, even when they secure forgiveness, drive out love. And from that I came to say that one may compel obedience but never love.

Whatever makes a man a beast also renders him pitiable. But it behoves us to be wary of these besti*l men despite our compassion, for they frequently turn on their friends.

How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to have learnt the lesson.

God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down into it.

Misery generates hate.

27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.

Age does not protect you from love. But love to some extent protects you from age.

You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back.

I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.

There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 11.

And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)

We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.

The goal is not to simulate reality right now by going crazy. The goal is to prepare for reality by going slowly