Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

Every artist is an unhappy lover.

Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.