Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Everyone has the right to express an opinion. No one has the right to be listened to.
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.
When in doubt, choose greatness.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.
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