What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize the pitifulness of money, success, and the public. Literature has become consumptive. It spits and slobbers, covers its blisters with salve and sticking-plaster, and has grown bald from too much hair-slicking. It would take Christ of art to cure this leper.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage.

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.