For a time I hovered in that peaceful dreamland where nothing at all works properly but everything is okay.

I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.

Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit.

Whatever you love unconditionally will become yours.

Beware of the wronged Genius

Success is rarely the result of one swell swoop, but more often the culmination of many, many small victories.

You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.

I want to show people my appeal through my simplicity rather than being 'I'm good looking; I know how to dress' that kind of way.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.