The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.

They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.