Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.