Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.

Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.