Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.

To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.