Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.