"The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made…"

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."

"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."