The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.

The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

There is no gift more great than love.

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.