I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

Even in the grave, all is not lost.