In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.

When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble on you.”~Cole

Life is short unless agony is long.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

There have been many Presidents of the United States and the roll will be indefinitely extended. We have had a number of brilliant soldiers, but only one great general.

Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

You have Donald Trump just making outright fabrications, accusing me of something that is absolutely untrue.

It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.