We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Better to write for yourself and have no public than write for the public and have no self.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied