"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."

"What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency."

"It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid."

"Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people."

"Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history."

"Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks."

"Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it."

"Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time."