"The greatest punishment for a man is to know that he has done wrong, but to be unable to atone for it."

"Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that people reach the truth."

"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison."

"The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man."

"Man is a being who can get used to anything."