You have to be an artist and a madman...

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

The majority of everything has always been judged and manipulated by and on a minority's deeds

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.

Telling the truth is less demanding than telling a lie.