I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

(it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things.

For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.

Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...

Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.

Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar!

In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their fifties.

Life can sometime be very hard for us and we feel that as if we are drowning in our problems. when we feel this way we only need to look up and see that there is a hand reaching out to save us.

The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.

The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own.

I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.