“A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam o...”

“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. ”

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”

“It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.”

“It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.”

“We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.”

“Universe is nothing, but human thought.”

“Nothing is the whole story. The selfs curse and the writers.”

“There's a fine line, you know. Between having space and having nothing.”

“I thought you were mad at me.""I am.""Well, I make it a rule never to have sex with anyone who's mad at me."He arched a brow. "It's a wonder you've ever had sex at all.”

“They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is most important and significant in Tolstoy's hidden life.”

“It is ridiculous - like a mad whirlwind... it's mad that I'm so famous.”

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

“I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.”

“I graduated from the University of Whatever.”