Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I was a child. The first move I ever made, after the cradle, was to crawl for the door, and every move I have made since has been an effort to escape.

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

O lost, And by the wind grieved, Ghost, Come back again.

There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldn't see, to be high, live low, stay young forever -- in short, to be the bohemian.