For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

Man is what he wills himself to be.