Art: to nudge truth along a little.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.