One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.