Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

If it's to be, it's up to me.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.