What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.