Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers