Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.

I want to be careful to not stray too far away from what Batman is to me, but adding that element takes you in some directions that haven't been explored quite as much with the character.

The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense

The artist is the world's scapegoat.

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms.

I am what I am because of who we all are.

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

You shouldn't eat animals, it's mean to them.