A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.