Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable.

I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.

The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.

You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. [...] I don't know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you - even the impossible, because you encourage it. You are really strong. I even like your deceit, your treachery. It seems aristocratic to me.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.