I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

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