Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.

ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.