You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.

For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.

The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.