Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

Only good questions deserve good answers.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

Life is a great disappointment.