I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms$$$ the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

Mere color$$$ unspoiled by meaning$$$ and unallied with definite form$$$ can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

We can have in life but one great experience at best$$$ and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things$$$ Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good$$$ gentle$$$ humane$$$ loving.

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.