He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.