There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.