Writing bores me so.

I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it