A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

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.