A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.