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.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

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.

Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.

I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

I think [Phil Wood] didn't suffer fools gladly, but he loved supporting young people that loved the music.

There's always a way out. All you have to do is take it.

Sometimes I sing very honestly, really as moving as possible.

I truly believe I have the most wonderful fans in the world.

The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.

He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.