People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.