An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.