Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

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.

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

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

Being in love, I find myself smiling for no reason at all...

Let all that you do be done in love.

Alex resisted the urge to throw Seb off the balcony and see if he could fly.

He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.

An art thief is a man who takes pictures.

I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.

I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know.

I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.