Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

We can't tell our life from our wish

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.