Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

The object of art is to give life shape.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.