A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.