Biography lends to death a new terror.

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well