I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.