"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made…"

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

"Punctuality is the thief of time."

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."