If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

Never offend an enemy in a small way.