I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.

Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...

Man only likes counting his grief, he doesn't count his happiness. But if he were to count properly, he'd see that there's enough of both lots for him.

Real love will take you far beyond yourself

Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

Pour me another tequila, I'm going to put on your red satin dress. You put on my clothes.

Our house is our corner of the world.

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

The universe is a really interesting place. I couldn't live anywhere else.

The best things in life don't come in adult sizes.