A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.