The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

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

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

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

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!