For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

Education is an admirable thing.