If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.