Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

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.

The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing.

Religious fervor has been known to lead mankind down some pretty disastrous paths in the past.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.

The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

I have so much to do! And there's so little time!

In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.

Speaking of Margaret Sanger, Grandson Alexander Sanger, head of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said: She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.