The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

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