To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

Time is a waste of money.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.