Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self

It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.