When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.