The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.