It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one'syouthful ideals.

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Well, if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have.

That's the job of our line. Get it deep, cause some commotion, be physical and try to get some garbage goals.

I think his development has been lightning quick because of his God-given talent. He has great aptitude and he's been able to develop very fast in front of our eyes at every level.

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.

I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.

One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.