We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.