Every man has his personal devil waiting for him somewhere.

Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own.

Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

The devil tells the best stories.

We all owe death a life.

If you get down and you quarrel everyday, you're saying praises to the devil, I say.

Writing is a holy chore.

The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.

It’s an agent of the devil, sent to punish evildoers for having done less evil than they should.

[Writers] are feared by every tyrant — who shows his fear by burning the books and destroying the individuals.