Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.