Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Consistency is a virtue for trains.

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.