Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.

Our shadows are taller than ourselves.

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.

One is not oneself every day-fortunately.