The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Art should never be popular.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.