I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five
Art, like Nature, has her monsters
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.