Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction