The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

Learn always but never appear to be learning.

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.