I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

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.

The moments of peace in between the mental practices are meditation.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

I am half child, half ancient.

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.

If you don't pass your values on to your kids, someone else will.

As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

I had always done these 3D things that you could walk through. They were always done off the seat of my pants without blueprints or course.