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

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.