It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.