Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

To speak of love is to make love.