It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Art should never be popular.

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.