I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

Truth is independent of facts always.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.