One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex; or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.

we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

We are born knowing death.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

I always write a story in one sitting.