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.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.