Any place that we love becomes our world.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.