If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.