“Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all.”

“Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.”

“Anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.”

“Ah, the poverty, the shortness the disappointment of human joy! For in reality car en realite, what is the duration of the supreme moment of love? It is nothing, an instant, a second perhaps. A second of ecstasy, and after that- dust, ashes, nothingness.”

“We know what goes on in the act of love, and those of us who are writers despair of ever finding verbal equivalents for the pain and pleasure of excitation fulfilled in what Rabelais’s translator Urquhart called ‘venerean ecstasy’. A mechanical description of the act tells us nothing, any more than a scientifically accurate account of mastication will convey the flavour of roast duck.”

“Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.”

“There is nothing that hasn't happened, but much that hasn't been told.”

“I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.”

“In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.”

“The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.”