I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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.

Get black on white.

A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.

'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.

Oh, you know record companies. . . at the end of the day, it's business. If you analyse it, you're just a piece of meat. The minute you go bad, it's: 'Next!'.

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent.

Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.