A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.

Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.

There's something magical about a woman who feels comfortable in her own skin.

I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.

Christ, what an imagination I've got!

When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.