She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

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