The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Life would be dull without them.

It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.