it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble