What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.

It would be hilarious if I worked in a bowling alley.

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

It seems that man's greatest natural enemy is the target.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

There is joy in the search for knowledge about the universe in all its manifestations.

The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.

Do not wish an everlasting spring! Without tasting the winter, you cannot get pleasure out of the spring!

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.