America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.