I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.