"His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands, between innumerable poles."

"The very essence of love is uncertainty."

"Hatred is the anger of the weak."

"I think it would be a good idea."

"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else."

"If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land."

"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."

"A hero is one who does what he can. The others don't."

"Men are jerks. Women are psychotic."

"Well behaved women seldom make history."