Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

Everything that is popular is wrong.

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.

Irony is wasted on the stupid

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.