The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.