Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.