I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

Those whom the gods love grow young.