The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

You will not drown the truth in seas of blood

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.