"In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare"

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”



"I restore myself when I'm alone"

"Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling."

 “Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.”



“Fashion is all about eventually becoming naked”

"Where does personality end and brain damage begin?"

"All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."



"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world"



"There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on."

"We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair"

"I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it"

"Come live in my heart, and pay no rent"

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself"

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness"