Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds as it amuses the fancy as it improves the understanding and as it strengthens virtue.

The virtues like the Muses are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

Even at our birth death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

One expected growth change without it the world was less the well of inspiration dried up the muses fled.