But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all prejudiced in favor of ourselves.

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.

To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.

One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.