I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

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

The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.

In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.