The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.
We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.
Truth is independent of facts always.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.