Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.

For five years I've felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born

Your body is a beautiful manifestation powered by spirit.

I've been burdened by questions I've asked myself a thousand times since the last time we were together. Why did I do it? And would I do it again? It was I, you see, who ended it.

I think the world of Chuck Berry.

They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.

One step in the right direction is better than a hundred years of thinking about it.