I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.