Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'