The great events of the world take place in the brain.

I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

A gentleman never offends unintentionally

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.