“Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.”

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”

“Those who go beneath the surface, do so at their peril.”

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is a man's original virtue.”

“Let those who have not walked as we have done,In the red fire of passion, those whose livesAre dull and colourless, in a word let those,If any such there be, who have not loved,Cast stones against you”

“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

“I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.”