It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.