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.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
When in doubt, choose greatness.
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
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.
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
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.
Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.
Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
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.
No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
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