A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.