An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.