History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

Happiness is pleasure without regret

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.