Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.