A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?