Nothing Is More Exhilarating Than Philistine Vulgarity.

My Loathings Are Simple. Stupidity, Oppression, Crime, Cruelty, Soft Music. My Pleasures Are The Most Intense Known To Man: Writing And Butterfly Hunting.

Memory Overshadows The Present And Dims The Future "into Something Thicker Than Its Usual Pea Soup."

Age Indomitably, In The European Manner. Do Not Finish Your Labours Young. Be A Planet, Not A Meteor. Honor The Working Day. Sit At Your Desk.

The Nostalgia I Have Been Cherishing All These Years Is A Hypertrophied Sense Of Lost Childhood, Not Sorrow For Lost Banknotes.

There Is Nothing More Atrociously Cruel Than An Adored Child.