Everybody who's been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability. Because you may be addressed at any moment by somebody.

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.

If this generation doesn't end...then change towards a better one will be delayed.

I cannot wait to stare into the face of my children and be in love.

Reason? Justice? The forces that victimized and paralysed him now were those that had created the world. Who was he to contend against them?

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

High heels are pleasure with pain.

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

The media sells it and you live the role.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.