"But his illness never attained the merciful degree of severity that would have entitled him to a spell in a lunatic a…"

"It’s not a story for people with thin skins and weak nerves, whom I would advise to replace this book on the pile at …"

"In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciate…"

"I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorpo…"

"In my position I simply can’t afford pangs of conscience. Fortunately, they fade the more power one acquires. It’s an…"

"You probably suppose that what you heard last night was music. Allow me to correct you: it was acoustic alchemy, hypn…"

"It symbolizes the three components of power: power, power and power."

"“How can the answer to today’s questions be in such an old book?” “The answers to almost all of today’s questions can…"

"In the end, because you become inured to anything you meet in vast numbers, I grew accustomed to the sight of these i…"

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written, that’s all."