Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.