I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

All art is quite useless.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.