If you don't get everything you want, think of the things yo... - Oscar Wilde

"I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!"

"Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is."

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is."

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

"There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all."