Denis Diderot

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.