Of all this world’s creatures, the author is the vainest,
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn’t agreeing with you. He’s just listening to you.
Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.
Never offend an enemy in a small way.
Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none.
I would not be surprised if elephants are more intelligent than human beings. After all, their heads are larger than ours, and the fact that they do not speak might well be an indication of superiorit...
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what...
I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.
A good deed never goes unpunished.
Seward appreciated the honest and open way that Stanton lied; it was the hallmark of the truly great lawyer, and demonstrated a professional mastery not unlike his own.
If one starts with the anatomical difference, which even a patriarchal Viennese novelist was able to see was destiny, then one begins to understand why men and women don't get on very well within marr...
A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those liberals who prefer to improve the live...
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
يبدو أن كثيرين من الجنوبيين يكتبون . ربما بسبب الحرب الأهلية . يجب الحصول على مأساة لكي نحصل على أدب .