You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

The stock actor is a stage calamity

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.