The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.