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

Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

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.

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.

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.