There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.

The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.

There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.