That is life's tragedy. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months I love acting. It is so much more real than life. The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
All art is quite useless.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men. There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business.