Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

You never know what's going to inspire you, until suddenly it does.

But I know he loves me. I know he needs our games, that they answer some deep-seated hunger in him.

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

In order to be found, you have to be findable.

I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.

Donald Trump's campaign manager said that you built a lot of businesses on the backs of little guys.

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

I was definitely ahead of my friends. I was French-kissing girls way before anybody else was.