I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.