I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.

Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she's free and can stand on her own feet. I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he's willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.