Nymphets do not occur in polar regions.

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned.

She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save her the impression of moving and living. What bothers me is that a sense of misery, and nothing else, is not enough to make a permanent soul. My enormous and morose Mademoiselle is all right on earth but impossible in eternity.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.