When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.

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.

There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.

Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.

there is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief.