Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

I have a simple taste, only the best.

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.