"...hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, nor even..."
- David Rakoff
"Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope."
- Oscar Wilde
"What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the w..."
"Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it."
"Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde."
- Mary Ann Shaffer
"One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing."