You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

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.

...life is extremely resilient but not infinitely so.

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence.

You know, " I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here, " he said.

Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.

An elegantly organized tour of the Internet, both fun and informative, a rare combination!

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.