There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.

Znaš jedno je požuda, a drugo ljubav. Iako su povezane, ipak su potpuno različite. Za ovu prvu dovoljno je malo sladunjavog govora i lijepe odjeće, ali da bi dobio ovo drugo, muškarac se mora odreći svog rebra. Zauzvrat,njegova će žena poništiti Evim grijh i vratiti ga u raj.'
'Ali kako muškarac zna kad da uloži svoje rebro? Imam mnogo prijatelja koji su ostali bez ijednog rebra a, unem ti se, raja nikad nisu vidjeli.'
Iskrena zabrinutost na mladićevom licu natjerala je Maestra Amborgia da kimne. 'Sam si rekao', potvrdio je. 'Muškarac zna, ali dječak ne.

But he is an Italian," was Umberto's sensible reply. "He doesn't care if you break some law a little bit, as long as you wear beautiful shoes. Are you wearing beautiful shoes? Are you wearing the shoes I gave you?...principessa?"
I looked down at my flip-flops. "I guess I'm toast.

Everything has a shadow-side. In my opinion, that is what makes life interesting.

He always says that those who control the present can rewrite the past.

Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic - not to mention the nerve - to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman.