I go wherever my fare is paid.

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.

Times will change for the better when you change.

An evil can only be killed by another kind of evil, because the pure spirit of peace can not do killing.

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.

There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.

Rich white guys. That's the true minority.

Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.