I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

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

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.