Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.