Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.