Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians.

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.

We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.

Do not be surprised that the world hates you, the truth is coming from the atheists I know.

English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work.

By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork.

I like to give stuff away for free and play shows for cheap and not rely on music as a job.

The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.

And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.

I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.