Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Art is not about something, Art is something

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.

Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief.

The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think.

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.

I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.

When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.

Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.

War is capitalism with the gloves off.