“The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.”

“The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.”

“When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.”

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

“The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.”