Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.