The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.

The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.

Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.