I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.