The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

Jealousy knows more than truth does.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

How strange women are.