I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

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

Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, which she kissed and cried over. She never said "Cease to grieve", but she grieved with me, and, for the first time since their death, I felt I was not alone.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.