He repeated her name over and over again. The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

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

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Never try to lock the virtue’s door with the key of viceIt may lock forever

What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

I learn to love the thing that has to be erased, the thing I may not be allowed to keep, sand that runs away beneath my running feet.

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music

I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

Of two evils, choose the more interesting.

I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.