A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.