Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.