No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.

Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.