“Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm”
Virginia Woolf
“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”
Oscar Wilde
“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”
“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
“Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
“Since I no longer expect/ anything from mankind except/ madness,/ meanness, and mendacity;/ egotism,/ cowardice,/ and/ self-delusion,/ I have stopped/ being a/ misanthrope.”
Irving Layton
“Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.”
Madonna
