If readers recognized that he was an ass, unaware of his own stupidity, ''your work will be a triumph.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it

I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant

I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous. Nothing could divert them from the regular and faithful performace of the pieties enjoined by the Church.

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.