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

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

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