Inteligence lives longer than beauty.

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.

Creativity is a high level of thinking and intelligence.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.

Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.

Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

I don't like salads: I like the strong food.