Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic; don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.