the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands, her bosom, her knees, her hair, her lithe and flowing clothes,Sweet bath, suavely Scented with ointments,has acquired a delicacy of skin, a refinement of tone, a kind of androgyny without which the toughest and most virile of geniuses remains, when it comes to artistic perfection, an incomplete being.

Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.

I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up.

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.

I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

Eternal superiority of the Dandy. What is the Dandy?

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no­­­-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

We need much less than we think we need.

My mother had said me, "All right, you've been raised, so don't let anybody else raise you. You know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. And remember - you can always come home." And she continued to liberate me until she died. On the night she died, I went to the hospital. I told my mom, "Let me tell you about yourself. You deserved a great daughter, and you got one. And you liberated me to be one. So if it's time for you to go, you may have done everything God brought you here to do."

Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.