The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.
Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.