To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.