"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level."
"There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all."
"Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping."
"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
"I have nothing to declare except my genius."
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."