Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.