Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.