A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
I never say 'No' to anything.
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.
I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to "Hamlet" on the grounds that I knew who won.
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
Everybody who's been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability. Because you may be addressed at any moment by somebody.
The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.
Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and they're flanked by monumental buildings, decorated with the faces of angry gods. And on the roof are statues of national heroes, wielding weapons of destruction.
I never really found out what love was.
God is so angry. All that power, and so mean with it.
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, "I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him."
I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.
What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
Los Angeles is just New York lying down.
Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.
Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.
When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.
I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
"I've never not been famous."
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