A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.