“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”

“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.”

“I put all my talent into my works; I put my genius into my life”

“I never change, except in my affections.”

“nothing is worth doing except what the world says is impossible.”

“Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned that.”