Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.