 Few artists can afford artistic temperament. |
| After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success. |
| A blunt statement can be as false as any other. |
| Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment. |
| Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. |
| Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening. |
| If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting. |
| Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality. |
| Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are. |
| The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker. |
| Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean. |
| Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting. |
| The beloved is the ultimate fetish. |
| To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget. |
| Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back. |
| Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out. |
| To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little. |
| Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape. |
| I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think. |
| Cure for an obsession: get another one. |
