Pain was a fascinating horror

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

No social stability without individual stability.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible…

What we see depends mainly on what we look for

So why did he do it?"Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistake. He fell in love.

There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.

Why bad things happen to good people

It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.

Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.

Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.

I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be.