Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.