Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

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.

Greatness is not a gift that one can give to another, but rather is a thief's relic that we must take for ourselves.

Be ashamed not of being single, or, unemployed. That comes standard.

At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.

Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

Being bullied means you’re special and that’s what I want all kids to know.

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

[John] McCain references favorite presidents like Teddy Roosevelt. Hillary cited Eleanor Roosevelt.

Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.

I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.