To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.