In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

One must make one's own mistakes