Beware of men bearing flowers.
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
sooner or later I do what I want to do.
Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.