If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life. The most are of use only to unfit him -- to blunt his senses and infect him with the writers' poor silly sentiments. Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions Act.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.