How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.