The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

What is to give light must endure burning.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

A good liar must have a good memory.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.