No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

I am like a blind pig when I work.

He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.