The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

The tragedy of love is indifference.

I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.