The real truths are those that can be invented.

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

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

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

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.

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.