People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.

The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.

As long as it makes you happy. For the rest of my life, I will do whatever it takes to ensure it. As my wife, you will not want for anything. What you desire, I will provide.

Some folks call her a runaway. A failure in the race. But she knows where her ticket takes her. She will find her place in the sun

I loved dancing as a young girl.

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters.

You mean, like a book?

I'm surprised there aren't more celebrities in burkhas.

You the one in all, say who I am. Say I am you.

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

I'm a liberal Democrat, and I state that proudly.