Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

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. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.