Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.

To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.

With renunciation life begins.

Lovers should also have their days off.

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.

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

Novels are longer than life.