The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.

Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.