Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

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

Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.