"Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other."

"A writer must be as cold as ice when he writes."

"What is the purpose of art? To prepare for death, to make us live better."

"The public likes to be fooled."

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."