If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.