O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.