If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

Only one who loves can remember so well.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.