Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Art is the accomplice of love.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us.

A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the sickly fear of man.

A writer who doesn’t read is like a director who doesn’t watch movies.

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

You measure a player from the head up.

I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life.

A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.

Make a written list of everything you love.

Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.

Do it right, regret nothing.