The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

All history is modern history.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.

Wait for the man who will do anything to be your everything. And will continue to do it after he has your heart.

In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.

There's going to be highs and there's going to be lows, try to keep your emotions out of it a little bit.

99.99% of all castles in America are located in fish tanks.

Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.

We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.