I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

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

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.