A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.

there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.

England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage.

Read and search for the answers you seek.

The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ("The Black Dog")

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.

If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already.

He who searches for his beloved is not afraid of the world.

I can't wait till Sunday, I'm gonna see my favorite niece and my other niece.

The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.