Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.

You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.