Everything in moderation, including moderation.

When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Most people are boring and stupid.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.