A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.