Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.