Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

A mutual misunderstanding.

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.