Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly for ever.

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.

A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate