We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all.
It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
We are very very small. but we are profoundly capable of very very big things.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
My greatest skill in life has been to want but little.
Let them hate so long as they fear
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Our love, our love will last forever. It's forever but it just doesn't work. that's why it will always be romantic because it can not be complete.
I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal
“money distorts truth like a hippo in a thong.”
Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.