What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth