Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that is ungentle or untutored or evil or mockery is as a rude stone cast at them, and they suffer all day long, or as Paul remarks they are slain every moment.

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.