Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

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

Love as if you are living just to love. Live as if your life depends on love.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

Getting to be involved with fashion is one of the coolest things I've done.

Contentment is knowing you're right

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

My father always told me that. "Nobody knows anything, so don't listen to anyone else."