The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art