Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.