I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

Between skin and skin, there is only light.

If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.