The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

Which arrow flies forever? The arrow that has hit its mark.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition.

Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.