A gramme is better than a damn.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

A man can smile and smile and be a villain.