It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

You can never know enough about your characters