Writing is a business and should be practiced as such. On days when you think you can’t possibly write a line you do it anyhow.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

At the dockside I was pleasantly surprised to find the North wasn't all hairy men in animal skins. There was also hairy women in animal skins.

In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

The more I see, the less I know.

I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.

We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.