"The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away."

"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."

"Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall"

"It is kind of strange watching your personal history become costume."

"One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read."

"I take care of my things. After all, those of us as has few things to begin with must take care, lest we have fewer."

"PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises."

"You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion."

"You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others."

"He who despises himself, respects himself as one who despises."

"Nothing is beautiful except the abnormal; and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm."

"What an artist perishes with me!"