There is no sin except stupidity.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

America is not a country, it is a world.

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching