Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.

To be free is often to be lonely.

Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm.

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.