Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.