It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.

What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.

A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.