"Convictions are prisons."

"Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man."

"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine."

"He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you."

"We are always in our own company."

"We always prefer war on our terms to peace on someone else's."

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

"Brothers? Oh, I hate brothers. My older brother just doesn't know when to die, and my younger brothers seem to do nothing but."

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."

"It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness."

"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today."