The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.
Reading civilized the inner life.
Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.
True wit has a grave intention.
The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.