Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason. The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.