Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.

Why are you pretending to write, when I already know you're just doing that to intimidate me?

Were one to call your stupid ism good, well then, one would either be equally idiotic, or a fool, or no good.

Happy are those who expect nothing

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us.

Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

Don't take too long, Mrs. Cullen

Please don't take a turn to negative town.