The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell -- in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

He is or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by the little scraps of wisdom.

There are four kinds of people in this world. Cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.

Here's a book about gnomes, undies, salamanders, elves, sylphs, fairies, but it, too, brings in the origins of Aryan civilization. The SS, apparently, are descended from the Seven Dwarfs.

Human beings are religious animals.

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.

Our life is full of empty space.