I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.