Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

History is only gossip.