An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.