The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

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

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

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.