Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

I am not a f**king pleasure girl, damn you! I’m an officer!

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. All zeal runs down. What replaces it? Intellectualism.

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. Im not a politician.

I have to grow with my audience.

The easiest way I have found to humble myself back into a state of peaceful grace is through the act of gratitude.

Swing easy and hit hard.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.

If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.