I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

No friendship is an accident.

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.