The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.