"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."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."

"When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets."

"For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear."

"Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper."

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred."

"I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff."

"No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work."

"To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy."