Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.
I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.
…my Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have.
History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.
Lists are a form of power.
I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.