The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.