We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.

She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.