The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise a… - George Moore

Humanity is a pigsty, where lions, hypocrites, and the obscene in spirit congregate.

The public will accept a masterpiece, but it will not accept an attempt to write a masterpiece.

My soul, so far as I understand it, has very kindly taken colour and form from the many various modes of life that self-will and an impetuous temperament have forced me to indulge in. Therefore I may say that I am free from original qualities, defects, tastes, etc. What is mine I have acquired, or, to speak more exactly, chance bestowed, and still bestows, upon me. I came into the world apparently with a nature like a smooth sheet of wax, bearing no impress, but capable of receiving any; of being moulded into all shapes.