Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.