His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."

One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

The best wines take the longest to mature.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.