"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"

"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."

"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment."

"He whom you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster!"

"To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished."

"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."

"Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter."

"The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings."

"You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?"

"Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances."

"Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty."

"The world wants to be cheated. So cheat."