I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.

Higher you step up to the ladder of success.. lesser you need to speak about yourself.. your deeds should do so.

...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles to cast my fate...

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.

Anybody that's been through a divorce, and I hope it's something people never have to experience, it's the worse thing in the world.

If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too. This is the kind of relationship you want, and it's the only kind of relationship worth having.

Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.