"The best things in life make you sweaty."

"I have a very strong opinion that the world is going to the dogs."

"I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him."

"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."

"I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is Taste. With the Intellect or with the Conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless, inde…"