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

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.

Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.