I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.