I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.