When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

Things never come when they are expected.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.