"Everything you say should be true, but..." - Quote by Voltaire

“The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.”

“I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.”

“Fame is a heavy burden.”

“You had better run from me. My words are fire.”

“There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.”

“It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.”

“Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.”

“When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.”

“Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.”