Beauty is boring because it is predictable.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.

Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.

He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.

Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!