“Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing.”

“Even if God forgives you, you do not forgive yourself. You live in your sorrow like a room of mirrors that reflects on and on to eternity.”

“I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. Instead they are only a mask we wear so that we can, for a little while, still recognize ourselves.”

“One day I woke up and said, 'I'm going to start a revolution.' ...and I did.”

“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”

“I may not be smart enough to do everything, but I am dumb enough to try anything.”

“I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life. ”