Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.