Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.