Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.