For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.