They say I have soul, forsooth.

But I am all body; you know that.

You doctors know that it is only body that we put on paper, body that lifts us high, or drags us low.

Why, my best romances come straight from my liver.

My pathos springs from its condition of disorder, and my imaginative force is only due to an unnatural state of body which I can deliberately produce by drinking tea that has stood a long while and become full of tannin.