How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
Do not scorn little victories.
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.