Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.