Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.