Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache and listening with attention to that headier draught, the wine of the intellect, that sweet and bitter juice distilled from the vine of thought and the tree of man's experience.

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.