A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

It's a good world if you don't weaken.

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.