The best revenge is to live well.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.