One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about. It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. | 
