The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, his works may throw light upon his life. An artist with certain imaginative ideas in his head may then involve himself in relationships which are congenial to them.