I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation of the beautiful, more especially than for our own, had been set in order by God the great landscape-garden of the whole earth.