There was something called Christianity.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

No social stability without individual stability.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Having the perfect body doesn't fix all your problems, or make you love yourself more. To me, it's all about being comfortable in your own skin.

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.

Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch.

Well, what did I expect? S&M didn't stand for soft and mushy?

There's two ways of working in Washington, ... One is to go along and get along. The other is to stand up for what you believe in.

The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.

The less you think, the more you believe.

I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to-and that is what adventures are all about.