What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

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

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.