Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

Talent is often a defect in character.

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!