With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.