We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

Talent means energy and persistence and nothing more!

I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon.

You know you are alone in marriage when your spouse is ignorant of your daily needs.

When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.

Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.

It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.