The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.