Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.

There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the correct formulation of a problem. Only the second is required of the artist.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.