"The best things in life make you sweaty."

"The want of an object for my love is the sole reason why I am not a maniac."

"I regard society as a species of animal which preys upon its own kind."

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."

"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 …"