The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.