I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

I am happy in my prison of passion

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.