Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.