I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.

"He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals."

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.