"We count the courtesies accorded us by..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".”

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”

“My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.”

“We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.”

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”

“Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.”

“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.”

“Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.”

“If you tell yourself a lie long enough, you'll start to believe it.”