Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame.

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.