It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.