When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.