"A novelist, for example, need have no care of his moral. It is there -- that is to say, it is somewhere -- and the moral and the critics can take care of themselves."

"The greatest crimes are not those committed for profit, but those committed for love."

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

"I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane."

"I have a profound contempt for the rabble."