Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.

When you fill your heart with love, life becomes abundant.

Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.

I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

I love Thandie Newton. I love her fashion sense as she is just really classic.

Never give up, no matter what.

The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.