Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.