All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.

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.

It's life. You deal with it or you don't.

In a country where children are unhappy, everyone is unhappy!

Do you want me to call the internet police for you?

A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.

We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

It'd be tricky to read into my lyrics - some are autobiographical, but sometimes I just like the sound of words.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.