fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?
nothing in life is more corroding than habit.
the best of all good friends is pride.
The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.