A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.
Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.