As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Life is a duty and an eternal journey in search of beauty.

When you remove the concept of reward and punishment on merit, the result is the utter destruction of social fabric.

Technology - the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.

Your date appears to be hysterical," Rene told me. "You think I should slap some man into him?

Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future.

The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to tell.

I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.