An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

One should always be a little improbable.

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.