I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

Most people are boring and stupid.

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.