Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.