Life isn't long enough for love and art.

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.