Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.