An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.
One should always be in love.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.