The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

Property is organized robbery.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.