“Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.”
“I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.”
“But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.”
“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ”
“The dangerous thing about truth is the way it changes depending on how you're looking at it. One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.”
“Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.”