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

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

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.

All I have is a voice.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.