Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.