The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.