I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.
Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.
The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
The entire social order. . . is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.
Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.
I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique.
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism.
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.