Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

The artist must know how far to go too far.

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Living is a horizontal fall.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.