Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.