What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.

To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.

I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.

Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.

Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.

I am the most interesting book of all.

To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.

Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!

I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?

Make a plan that concern your purpose, your calling and describes exactly what should be done every day for your purpose and life mission

People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.

The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.

One day I want to write a full-on horror book.

Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad - it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.

I started at 14, and only played bass. I traded in my train set for a bass, and used my dad's amp.

There's just something that feels nice about holding a comic book!