It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

This is probably going to be one wound that can never be healed.

I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.

I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll.

Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.

The navel center will bring the power of all three of the lower chakras into your being, but with safety.

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.