Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.

Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.