"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."

"Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived."

"A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life."

"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."

"Things aren't magically better if that's what you're hoping for. It's not that simple."

"Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected."

"(Kenneth) Star...(has) done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available."

"Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate..."

"To love at all is to be vulnerable."