Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts.

Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them.

In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage.

anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.