I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.

There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.

He was very religious he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread.

So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.

Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life!

Every sin provokes its punishment.

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

I didn't really [seriously] go out with any guys until I was 18 and met my ex-fiancé, Michael Weatherly.

Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is