I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.