Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!