All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued$$$ but its release has become a functional necessity.

The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.

Alcohol as helpful to the making of scapegoats as mud to the shaping of golems.

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in$$$ although only one of them was dead.

Trying to stop slanderers' tongues is like trying to put gates to the open plain.

All human efforts to communicate$$$ even in the same language$$$ are equally utopian$$$ equally luminous with value$$$ and equally worth the doing.

After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past$$$ the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.

Good painters imitate nature$$$ but bad ones spew it up.

The praise of the wise few is more important than the mockery of the foolish many$$$

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason $$$ so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.