Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

Women are women and can't help themselves.

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

When we get to the end of ourselves, we get to the beginning of God.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

Under the international agreements, the Russian peacekeepers are committed to protect the population of South Ossetia.