One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.

I wish you a Merry Christmas sparkle with endless love, gladness and goodwill.

I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village.