Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the 'findings' in a tomb. As in one will be charted the taken place of the body, the raiment, the utensils necessary to its other life, so in the heart of the lover will be traced, as an indelible shadow, that which he loves.

There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.