Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Bad artists always admire each others work.

All great ideas are dangerous.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.