There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

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.

Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.