To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

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.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

I have a simple taste, only the best.

We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.