It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.