And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.