Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.