Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them.

I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement.

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.