You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.