Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his body: and yet the body of man is capable of much curious pleasure.

The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.