The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

All great innovations are built on rejections.

Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you.

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.