Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.