I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.