I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

Someday, I will be brave enough to say these things to you in person. For now, I remain in happy, quiet contemplation over you and can say tonight that I just might love you. Or could someday.

Say not the days are evil.Who’s to blame? And fold the hands and say, oh, shame!Stand up! Speak out, and bravely, in God’s name, be strong!

There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.Love is the law, love under will.

Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it's unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it's unrehearsed and clumsy!

I wasn't a model that loved food. I was someone that loved food that started modeling.

Summer skylarks Dart about the heavens Above the deep mountains.

Vocally, I really like going into the darker side of myself.

I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.