Any film is at least better than real life.

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.

Investing in your mind is the best investment you can make.

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Art is born of humiliation.

The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.

Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.

The key factor that will determine your financial future is not the economy; the key factor is your philosophy.

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah.

All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered.

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.