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.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.