"Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice."

"There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and ever…"

"What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore."

"The greater part of your misogamy is venal; the other cause of your invective humbug is that you're a muggish homuncl…"

"Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disast…"

"Let the bard from Smyrna catalogue Harma, the ledges and caves of Thaca, the milk-fed damsels of Achaia, pigeon-flock…"

"Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world."

"Nobody ever overcomes the phantasms of his childhood. The man is the corrupt dream of the child, and since there is o…"

"When the image of her comes up on a sudden—just as my bad demons do—and I see again her dyed henna hair, the eyes dwa…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."