If it's to be, it's up to me.
The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.
People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.
All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.