Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

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

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

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.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.