Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.
Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
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 love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.