"It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is."

"I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to them."

"There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions."

"To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?"

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist."

"In life, it is not what you know or who you know that counts -- it is both!"

"In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today."

"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."

"It's so much more friendly with two."

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

"One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass."

"Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose."