Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

You can't find the soul with a scalpel.

The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.

DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

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

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.