Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

No social stability without individual stability.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

How do you love someone and just… walk away? Just like that. You just, go on as normal…. You get up, get dressed, go to work… How can you do that? How can you be okay with that?

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

Too many of you, my friends, are dying. Now it's time for me to do my part and help you.

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

Most people are one car wreck away from needing somebody's help. So, I don't take anything for granted much anymore.

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

I never thought I'd be in a family that has more people than a small country.

Dance music was on its arse before we came along.

I'm blessed to be able to do what I do.