I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

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.

But it is not always the people who say most who do most.

We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.

Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.

The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality.

A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.

I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.

There's nothing like a little Gideon therapy to make things look up.