Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

Yeh don’ have ter be ashamed of what yeh are.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

Keep your morale high, in spite of setbacks. At the end you are bound to succeed.

The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.

I've gotta say that there's very little that I miss about being a beast, if I'm being totally honest. It's just not a fun experience to go through.

Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.")