No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.

Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy.

We are unique not by comparison but by compassion (the moral of my book The Cheetah and the Snail)

When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep.

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.

No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.

We all are born mad. Some remain so.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.