If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Originality is in the eye of the beholder.

Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.

Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.

I obey my own commands about as often as others do.