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.

If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

Life is a great disappointment.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.