Never try to leap from a standstill.
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.
Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
The real secrets are not the ones I tell.
Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.
Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
The time I kill is killing me.
Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
Young men preen. Old men scheme.
My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.