My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

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

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

All art is at once surface and symbol.