Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

You don't even live once.

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.