Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

You can't eat your friends and have them too

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.

I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.