A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.