“Love does strange things to a man’s sense of proportion, which is why—contrary to rumor—it is by no means the Devil’s least favorite emotion.”

“Europeans are awakening more and more to a sense that beasts have rights, in proportion as the strange notion is being gradually overcome and outgrown, that the animal kingdom came into existence solely for the benefit and pleasure of man. This view, with the corollary that non-human living creatures are to be regarded merely as things, is at the root of the rough and altogether reckless treatment of them, which obtains in the West.”

“Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.”

“For man holds his ground only by surpassing himself, in the same sense in which it is said that one ceases to love if one does not love increasingly everyday.”

“If there be one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man — it is a man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.”

“Generating rumors is one thing even the most inept armed force does exceedingly well.”

“But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.”

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”

“People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.”

“Patrick: One of my favorite rumors about myself is that I am 31, which is just about 10 years off, so…
Pete: He's 41, you mother fuckers.”