Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

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.

The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.