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.
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
When in doubt, choose greatness.
Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.
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.
No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
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.
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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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