Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.