It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.

If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

Women don't want to be listened to. They only want to be agreed with

Strong faith is not an emotion. It's a choice.

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

Hellboy?” “What?” “Touch me. Make me forget all this.” He was on her in an instant, took her down to the floor before she could blink.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.