Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

You must render: never report.

And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.

To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.

The only certainty is death.