Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

The very madness of the scheme protects it.

there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.