Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the effect of the evidence, and sometimes transforms it entirely.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.