Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.