Conquered people tend to be witty.

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.

I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.