The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.

The programming of the consciousness is based upon what is accepted or believed.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.

The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.