You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.