The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.

The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.

I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them.

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.