All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.
We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much
People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.