"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
"Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire."
"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do."
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."