You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that

For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.

We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.

No, you just keep crashing my life. Look—" I said, and Al grunted. "Here it comes," the demon muttered. "Listen. Listen to this, runt. She's going to have a list.

Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer than not knowing. And we are pretty much always making assumptions.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

Buy a cross section of American industry, and if a cross section of American industry doesn't work, certainly trying to pick the little beauties here and there isn't going to work either.

I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.