"Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable."

"It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species."

"Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all."

"There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you."

"It is a unyielding truth that courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies."

"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."