I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.

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.

In the dark, words get lost.

Sometimes up sometimes down, Treat well life whatever comes around

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.

Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?