Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

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

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.

You can never know enough about your characters