“Every personal existence was upheld by a secret.”

“Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?”

“Things every person should have:•A nemesis.•An evil twin.•A secret headquarters.•An escape hatch.•A partner in crime.•A secret identity.”

“...every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who reflects it, and everyone carries this reflection like a secret confidante in the heart.”

“Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.”

“What do you take me for? That fool Socrates, who upheld the law at the cost of his own death – just to be ironic? I suspect that act was actually the result of his secret embarrassment of his hideous nose.”