Critics? I love every bone in their heads.

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing!

None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.