Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.