Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.

Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.

If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue,” said his hostess categorically. “I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy dodging mine.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.