The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure