Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.
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.