My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.