"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."

"My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's."

"Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."

"If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any."

"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances."

"Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun."

"You have to let people challenge your ideas."

"There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

"As you map out the future, do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it."

"Some of the best advice I ever received was 'Man, that was terrible'."

"One picture is worth a thousand words."