That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

You are mine." He spoke against her lips. "You always have been. You always will be.

Nobody wants anything bad to happen; the other side isn't evil.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

I love to just get in the booth. Put some tracks down. I’m basically Rihanna.

I can lose myself in the Universe.

Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.