Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.