Nothing like a little shared racism to build ties with the boss.

Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.

You are no greater than the knowledge you acquire, the desires you harbor, and the experiences you cherish.

Art is the business of selling fetishes, sacred relics once touched by genius: what the forger offers the gullible buyer is not art, it is "authenticity

It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.

In all small things be honest and the big ones will take care of themselves.

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

I don't say anything wacky about women. I have more respect for women than anybody would understand and I'm going to give people jobs and I'm going to protect people.

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

Do not forsake prayer, for just as the body becomes weak when it is deprived of food, so also the soul when it is deprived of prayer draws nigh to weakness and noetic death.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.

You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.