He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave

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

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.

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