Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church.

The wind had blown the fog away, and the sky was like a monstrous peacock's tail, starred with myriads of golden eyes.

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

Facts are not merely finding a footing-place in history but they are usurping the domain of fancy and have invaded the kingdom of romance. Their chilling touch is over everything. They are vulgarising mankind.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.