No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-- it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.