To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.