Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.

In fact living is dying.

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.