But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.

...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.