The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late