“I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.”

“The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.”

“What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?”

“A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything.
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.”

“Tell me, is it better to know love and have lost it or to have never known it at all? [Camulus]”

“Everyone loves something for nothing… even if it costs everything.”

“It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.”

“When you have never known a thing except to dream, it becomes more than a talisman.”

“There is room enough for a natural 'painture'. The great vice of the present day is bravura, an attempt to do something beyond the truth. In endeavouring to do something better than well, they do what in reality is good for nothing. Fashion always had, & will have, its day — but truth (in all things) only will last, and can only have just claims on posterity.”

“I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion”