It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.