"In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque; the fearful coloured into the horrible; the witty exaggerated into the burlesque; the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical. You may say al…"

"I have no faith in any system of philosophy that does not begin with God."

"A novelist, for example, need have no care of his moral. It is there -- that is to say, it is somewhere -- and the moral and the critics can take care of themselves. When the proper time arrives, all …"

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."

"I am a man of the world, and have seen much of its evil. I have also seen something of its good."