I've never not been famous.

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.

Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences.

Man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.

Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God.

My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

The wise speak only of what they know

Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

I implore those who love me to love my solitude.