The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.

The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

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.

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

Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.