The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Every artist is an unhappy lover.

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.