For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7 make breakfast and go to work. Or come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
War consisteth not in battle only or the act of fighting but in a tract of...
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Two obsessions are the hallmarks of Nature's artistic style.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not...
Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her...