Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.

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.

When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.

Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless.

Every child who is born is the universe looking at itself with fresh eyes.

A failure is only a step on the way to your success.

The trees like lungs filling with air. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.

I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?

I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects

The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.

Giving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to your refrigerator.

Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.