I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

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

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.