When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.
Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.