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.

Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

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.

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.

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

Order is the key to all problems.

True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.

I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.