Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.

Blind yourself, for I am blind.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.