Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything..

Nothing is proved, all is permitted..

To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and delight….

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards..

If we are to extract any joy out of our span, we must think and plan and make things better not only for ourselves but for others, since joy for ours….

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire..

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance..

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean..

We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no theaters no motion ….

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely..

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail..

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet….

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance..

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended..

If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing..

People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are….

The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shre….

Depend on it, that from every condition of distress or evil there is a great reaction, and the greater the evil or distress, the greater the reaction….

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none ….

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a m….

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence..