I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.