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

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

The sky was pure opal now.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.