Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

Men become old, but they never become good.

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.