I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Everything is going to be fine in the end. If it's not fine it's not the end.
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.
Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Wisdom comes with winters.
The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
She lives the poetry she cannot write.
Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.