I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it