Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

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.

But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

Packed with detailsplendidly depicts passion, brutality, and cultures in conflict.

I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.

If I run towards you, you should be running towards me!

One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.

I'm a pretty calm person. That came from living in Italy for a long time. Nothing works, nothing is on time. You have to learn to deal with it.

Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail.

I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.