Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

Every girl has a right to be loved.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.