I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.