The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

A work of art is an exaggeration.

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.