"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's."
"Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force."
"I drink to separate my body from my soul."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."