The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.