If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.