If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Art should never be popular.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)