Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.