“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. It starts in the right manner.”

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”

“The real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.”

“Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.”

“Every good story-teller nowadays starts with the end, andthen goes on to the beginning, and concludes with themiddle...”

“When the prurient and the impotent attack you, be sure you are right.”

“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.”