"Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue."

"After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again."

"Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

"What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love."

"She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books."

"And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space."

"By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream"

"Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation."

"What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!"

"The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror"

"You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything"

"Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form."

"Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truely die."

"I'm not from the heart of Atlanta, I'm from the Eastern outskirts. Stone Mountain is the town - Gambino is from there, Danger Mouse is from there. So there's a lot more greenery, lakes and a mountain you can climb everyday - all kinds of stuff that I'm into. I wear sandals, or a harness - I'm prepared to be outdoors because that's just how I am."

"If a man does not have the sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can be lost in the sauce."

"I'm icy, I'm icy. So icy, so icy."

"My own momma turned her back on me, and that's my momma."

"I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."

"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere."

"A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running."

"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."

"Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy."

"Before I speak, I have something important to say."