It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

Authority is quite degrading.