The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.

If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.