She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

And if it feels good... Feel it!

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.