Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.

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

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.