Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.