There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.

Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.

The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him.

Diplomacy is to do and say The nastiest thing in the nicest way.

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

Falling in love IS bizarre and creepy

I read a picture not for what's really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.

It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.

I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'

Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.

I'll try anything once, most things twice.

Any form of art is a form of power.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!