The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.