The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.