Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

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 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.

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.