The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.

In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.

The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.