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

"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 …"

"I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow."

"Why does a lady in tight corsets never need comfort? Because she's already so laced. — solaced."

"Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem."