“Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.”

“We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.”

“Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.”

“Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.”

“Most men who run down women are running down one woman only.”

“The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.”

“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”

“As long as there have been women." Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women.”

“In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was now the only tie between us, eclipsing everything else.”

“I'm more haunted by how what I've said and the things I've done have caused harm to myself and others than I am worried that God will punish me for being bad. Because in the end, we aren't punished...”