Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?

Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.

You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.

Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can match that velvet whisper of flesh. No matter how unequal they may be in any other ways, all women, old and young, fat and thin, beautiful and ugly, have that perfection. It's a great part of the reason why men hunger to possess women, and so often convince themselves that they do possess them: the thigh, that touch.

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.