Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.