My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.