The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.
Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207
If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.